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Thanks to Redbox for including me in a great Earth Week panel on Innovation, Entrepreneurism and Green Business. Nearly 150 employees showed up to learn about new ideas, and striking a balance between running a business and looking out for the Earth.[continue reading]

The Energy Out West conference is held every other year and began in 1996 when a group of people doing weatherization work in the Northwest thought they could help each other do it better. The current president of Energy Out West (EOW) is Mimi Burbage, who should be familiar to readers of Home Energy and anyone in weatherization. Mimi brings that independent, Alaska, straight talk style to whatever she does, from heading the Alaska Housing Finance ...[continue reading]

On March 25, 1912, GE Lighting employees gathered at Nela Park campus in Cleveland, Ohio to bury a sealed time capsule that contained GE light bulbs representing available and emerging incandescent technologies of the era.[continue reading]

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than in conversation with world-class leaders in sustainability? What greener way to do it than by joining virtually from your home, school, or office?
The Spring of Sustainability, lasting through June 22, 2012, is bringing renowned sustainability pioneers to the public in free daily phone/webcast interviews, featuring Q&A’s that allow callers to interact with leaders and luminaries directly.
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The popularity of LED-based lamps and fixtures is growing fast, says a recent survey done by Egret Consulting Group, a retained search firm exclusively for the electrical and lighting industries.[continue reading]

Francis (JR) Babineau, PE is a building scientist and solar technology leader for Johns Manville. Although he’s been working with Johns Manville for more than 15 years, he’s just recently become a member of the Home Energy Board of Directors. [continue reading]

The electric industry is good at building things. That’s how it solves problems. Is there a threat of blackouts? Develop a new natural gas-fired plant. Worried about climate change? Build wind and solar power. Does electricity cost too much? Install a transmission line to import cheaper power.[continue reading]

Energy auditors and retrofitters know that it’s hard to sell the benefits of energy efficiency to homeowners. But the truth is that energy efficient upgrades save homeowners money, help sell homes quicker, and yield a higher profit when on the real estate market.[continue reading]

Q. Have you ever heard of back plaster? The house we bought a couple of years ago has been diagnosed with this malady, and apparently it’s not uncommon for houses built around the turn of the century where I live to have it. It involves a second layer of lath and plaster inside the exterior walls between the studs, spaced about 2 inches from the inside of the regular lath/plaster, and about ¾ ...[continue reading]

While listening to Peter Troast of Energy Circle and Allison Bailes of Energy Vanguard speak in front of a room about social media and Internet marketing for the home performance industry, it's easy for your head to feel like it may explode. In the best possible way, of course.[continue reading]